Hello everyone! As you can tell, I'm new around here. Glad to join the forum and I hope to contribute to the community however I can.
I have MC Java Edition and I'm having a struggle trying to make Optifine work on the latest Forge version. I'm using Forge's 1.14.4 28.1.90 version, and also OptiFine's 1.14.4 HD U F4 version. Forge is correctly installed, it loads up normally and the game starts; but when I join the game I try to check the mods and it doesn't show up Optifine at all. There are no error messages or warnings, it just won't load the mod.
I tried to extract it to the mods folder as the "_MOD" version, and also tried to extract the folder itself to the folder, but it didn't work as well. I also tried to install it, but it creates another MC version (which is not what I want, as I want to put OPT as a mod along with many others).
What could I possibly do to make it work - or what "workaround" could I do to make it so?
Thanks in advance for any help!
EDIT: also, if you need any more pictures, let me know.